The Aspen Institute IDEA Plenary in Los Angeles, California, co-hosted by the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, engaged critical companies, non-governmental organizations and government officials in Roundtable dialogue to address common interests in a free and open Internet. The IDEA Project, an international initiative, aims to foster a unified, reliable and open global Internet through a multi-stakeholder process. The Los Angeles meeting was the second in a series of five plenary meetings.